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Drupal 8 pilot infrastructure opened

We are really happy to announce that the Drupal 8 Pilot infrastructure is already open. So please feel free to start requesting one and create those great websites you always wanted to have.

How to request one Drupal 8 website?

In order to request a Drupal 8 pilot website, you just need to go to webservices portal https://cern.ch/web and select as creation option "Drupal 8 (Pilot)"

There is a new functionality that will let you choose the type of website you want to instanciate, for the moment only two options are available, Blank site and Demo template. But new site types will arrive in the future to tailor specific use cases out of the box.

Please find here the difference between them:

Blank site

Demo template

Similar to current Drupal 7 websites.

Empty fresh site, without any extra functionality.

SSO and new CERN Theme enabled by default

Precreate website created by IR-ECO-CO

Built on top of a Blank site

Used as showroom of the new CERN Theme options and features

Migrate existing Drupal 7 website into Drupal 8 pilot

We have evaluated the migration framework provided by Drupal community, https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/upgrade/, and even it evolved pretty well still it's not and never will be a full migration of existing Drupal 7 website. So will be better to clarify here how to request the migration and what to expect from the migration.

How to migrate my existing Drupal 7 website?

In order to migrate your Drupal 7 website these are the steps to follow:

Request a new Drupal 8 Pilot website, for this use case please select "Blank site" profile. This website will be later used to get the migration from the Drupal 7 site.

Theme and theme related settings, unless your site is using a community theme that provides the upgrade path (which seems unlikely) the theme and it's related settings won't be migrated. Please also note that for the moment there is no migration path implemented for the CERN theme.